Years Ago

April 22, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, April 22, the 112th day of 2010. There are 253 days left in the year.

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1864: Congress authorizes the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins.

1889: The Oklahoma Land Rush begins at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims.

Congress authorizes creation of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, also known as the “Rough Riders.”

1930: The United States, Britain and Japan sign the London Naval Treaty, which regulates submarine warfare and limits shipbuilding.

1938: Forty-five coal miners are killed in an explosion at Keen Mountain in Buchanan County, Va.

1944: During World War II, U.S. forces begin invading Japanese-held New Guinea with amphibious landings at Hollandia and Aitape.

1954: The publicly televised sessions of the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings begin.

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson opens the New York World’s Fair.

1970: Millions of Americans concerned about the environment observe the first “Earth Day.”

1994: Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, dies at a New York hospital four days after suffering a stroke; he was 81.

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1985: A study by Terry Buss and George Garchar at the Youngstown State University Center for Urban Studies shows that the unemployment rate among blacks in the Youngstown-Warren area is 37.2 percent, compared to 15 percent for whites.

Emanuel N. Catsoules, superintendent recommends to the Youngstown Board of Education that 107 teachers be laid off at the end of the school year.

1970: The nation’s oldest noncommercial radio station, WSAF-AM and FM at Grove City College, will re-enact its first historic broadcast of April 26, 1920, to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

The School Survey Task Force says its preliminary findings are that Youngstown has one “dream school” and many others that offer less than desirable facilities for education.

About 200 Campbell Memorial High School students demonstrate in front of the Campbell Board of Education to protest the board’s release of John Georges as basketball coach and teacher.

Playing at the West Side Drive-In theater, “Midnight Cowboy,” starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.

1960: William F. Quinlan Jr., 67, Mahoning County clerk of courts since 1936, dies in North Side Hospital, leaving the clerk of court’s office unable to function because no one is the office has the power to issue summonses or accept legal papers for filing.

Ohio Gov. Michael DeSalle commutes the death sentence of Frank Poindexter of Cincinnati to life in prison in the killing of a woman in her Hamilton County home. Di- Salle said that because Poindexter’s accomplice received life in prison after pleading guilty it would constitute an unequal justice to execute Poindexter.

1935: Warm Sunshine brings out an estimated 40,000 Youngstowners for Easter morning services.

Manufacturing in the Youngstown industrial area totaled less than $300 million in 1933, generally considered to be the worst of the depression, the U.S. Census Bureau says.

New members are inducted into the Chaney High School chapter of the National Honor Society: Clarence Lieberman, John Kozak, Kenneth Jones, George Schwager, Frank Kishton, Ronald Cahalin, Elaine Cello, Florence Burnside, Alice Price, Howard Douthitt, Mariann Scanlon, Katherine Kolesar, Mary Jane Peterson and Louise Leporis.